According to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF, ret), one of President Bush's squadron mates in the Texas Air National Guard, there is no such thing as the California National Reserve of which Kerr claimed to be a former member.

Campenni told HUMAN EVENTS that Kerr is not even a retired Army General.

"He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel," said Campenni. "It is common at Guard retirement ceremonies to give an honorary promotion to colonels to the STATE rank of Brigadier General...[but] it has no meaning other than a fancy certificate for the wall and use of the title at local Guard functions."

Campenni said the rank of general is not federally recognized and the title can not be used or the rank worn outside the state.

Although CNN claimed they verified Kerr's military background and that he had not contributed any money to any presidential candidate, it's unlikely that no one at the network was aware of his identity within the Clinton campaign.

But whether they had knowledge or not, it was CNN's journalistic responsibility to find out.

(On CNN's planting of a Gay general at the GOP debate. To be sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's I am the very model of a modern Major-General.)

According to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF, ret), one of President Bush's squadron mates in the Texas Air National Guard, there is no such thing as the California National Reserve of which Kerr claimed to be a former member.

Campenni told HUMAN EVENTS that Kerr is not even a retired Army General.

"He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel," said Campenni. "It is common at Guard retirement ceremonies to give an honorary promotion to colonels to the STATE rank of Brigadier General...[but] it has no meaning other than a fancy certificate for the wall and use of the title at local Guard functions."

Campenni said the rank of general is not federally recognized and the title can not be used or the rank worn outside the state.

Although CNN claimed they verified Kerr's military background and that he had not contributed any money to any presidential candidate, it's unlikely that no one at the network was aware of his identity within the Clinton campaign.

But whether they had knowledge or not, it was CNN's journalistic responsibility to find out.